W) Longest Wingspan
The bird with the longest wingspan is the wandering albatross. These sea birds use their 4 metre wings to drift across the sea, rarely needing to drop out of the heavens at all. They can stay on the wing for hours without a single flap and live for 20 years because they are so super chilled.
One individual that was tagged managed to cover 6000 km in twelve days. BOOM! (Just FYI, the bird with the biggest wing area is the Andean Condor.)
X) Longest Xylophone
Thankfully someone in Japan has made a massive xylophone in a forest. Otherwise I think ‘X’ may have stumped me. The only down side is that it’s an advert for a mobile phone. Oh well. Look:
‘http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBcYTItYdlI’]
Y) Longest Yacht
The Azzam yacht is an embarrassment of showy money wasting, but it does look amazing. Owned by “an undisclosed Middle Eastern billionaire” this mega yacht is available to charter if you fancy it? They reckon it probably costs about $60 million a year just to maintain it.
Inside, it’s reported to have a bulletproof master suite, a missile defense system (you can never be too careful), two helipads, a movie theater, two pools, and its own miniature submarine. At an estimated cost of $605M, she is more than twice as expensive as the second largest motor yacht, the Eclipse.
Z) Longest Zip Wire
So let’s end today on a literal high with the world’s longest, fastest and highest zip wire. It’s called Zip Slide 2000 and it’s at Sun City in South Africa. It looks terrifying but also pretty darned awesome.
‘http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA19yjVgB58’]
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